None Dare Call It Treason
My paranoia has been refined to new purity by a headlong dive into the mother lode of Batshit Crazy:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net
This being a suitable entry-point into what I promise you is an endless labyrinth of every possible conspiracy theory ever hallucinated into existence, with intermittent attempts to weave them all into a sort of Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory (GUCT? Conspiracists seem to like acronyms...)***WARNING: this includes the racist ones.***I am no "fan" of, you know, evil, per se, nor an anti-Semite, as this seems to come up often in the conspiracy...

I, for One, Welcome Our New Troll Overlords
It is with a tear in my beer and a rocket in my pocket that I welcome The Maddening Horde. Aside from the persistent spammers, who don't count, this is my first troll. Thanks, Penrod / Sean! I love you, too.PS: I'm sorry your god died. : (

Buddhalicious Redux
I could've said: "Atheists think that they are hardcore because they don't believe in God. But Buddhists don't even believe in people! - except in a notional or discursive sense, and excepting the personalists (who lost), and then there's the Pudgala section of the Adhidamma, but there, we are still talking fundamentally about concatetenations of dhammas over time, according to causal processes." But that would've been a lot less snappy. Rhetoric is a bitch.